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Sounds Good will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day by honoring the minister and activist s legacy with two special presentations from PRX on Monday, January 18th.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Day special programming on Monday, January 18th, is as follows:
11 am:
Constant Wonder: MLK Day Special
We all know of Martin Luther King Jr. s major contribution to the discourse about non-violence. Who planted the seeds of his thinking? It turns out that you can trace at least one strand of his intellectual development by way of Quakerism, back to one of the earliest American abolitionists. We ll learn about Anthony Benezet and also about an early freedom rider, Elizabeth Jennings.